Gailey v. Robertson’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 2015
4 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Osterberg v. Union Trust Co. · Wabash Eastern Railway Co. v. Commissioners of East Lake Fork Special Drainage District · Lybass v. Town of Fort Myers · Cooper v. Corbin
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A statutory municipal lien upon abutting lots for sidewalk improvements, being in the nature of a governmental tax, has relation to the statute, and such a lien may be superior to a mortgage lien upon the lots given after the enactment of the law creating the lien, but before the improvements upon the sidewalks were made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.